Financial planning

Ending tax-free wealth transfers through the longstanding step-up in basis loophole is among the proposals.

Citigroup, whose U.S. wealth management business oversees about $181 billion in client assets, created a new business to sell products through independent advisors as CEO Jane Fraser maps a path to managing more money for wealthy individuals.

The CFA Institute has created a voluntary Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Code for the Investment Profession in the United States and Canada as financial firms wrestle with expanding a more diverse workforce.

Harold Hamm, the founder of Continental Resources, will pass a stake of his company worth $2.3 billion to each of his five children.

As more investors look to make portfolio allocations based on their values, we explore what ESG ratings can do — and what they can't.

Leadership worried that by trying to be everything to everyone, the association risked diminishing its appeal and determined to address the issue once and for all.

Understanding how gifted money will impact the student’s FASFA is critical.

After months of talk of steep tax increases on the wealthy, a kinder reality has emerged for well-off clients.

Amid the pandemic, staying informed about life insurance strategies with trusts and estates is critical.

Democrats, unable to gain traction on taxes that affect only the ultra wealthy, have turned to trusts as little as $200k.

There is little doubt that growing and protecting wealth is a critical pillar in everyone's financial plan. But what about maintaining and improving your health?

The wealth management business is undergoing considerable transformation. The pandemic has created a new breed of investors, with distinct expectations and tastes formed by new technology and having lived through the financial crisis.

Financial advisors have a variety of objectives in working with their investment-planning clients. But when all is said and done, clients are usually mainly interested in a successful road map to growing and protecting their wealth to and through retirement.

Any type of unreimbursed long-term care expense, be it for a mental or physical impairment, can completely ruin a client’s personal and retirement plans.

Results published Monday show that 46% of White people are working with professionals to plan their finances, while 38% of African Americans, 36% of Asian respondents and 44% of Hispanic people are doing the same.

An in-depth look at the provisions being considered for the new legislation.

Even professionals such as accountants and attorneys who may serve as trustees are unaware of the numerous risks that life insurance policies carry.

Join Financial Planning's Editor-in-Chief, Chana Schoenberger, Chief Correspondent Tobias Salinger, industry luminary Mark Tibergien and financial advisor Dasarte Yarnway as they discuss the profound changes the financial advisory sector is undergoing.

The LearnLux scholarship will be awarded annually and provide recipients with the guidance, resources and tools necessary to pass the CFP exam within 19 months.

Advisors share a tax trick that allows professionals to build seven-figure retirement plans.